A rare complication of brucella infection: Myocarditis and heart failure

Abstract

Cardiac complications from brucellosis are unusual and usually manifest as endocarditis. The other possible complication is myocardial involvement. Brucella myocarditis and development of heart failure is a very rare complication of brucellosis. We present a patient with new onset heart failure due to brucella myocarditis treated with favorable antibiotic therapy. © 2009 The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.